Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golf's precision machine, two months short of 40, slipped a cog in the blistering (96°) Texas heat in the third round, wound up with a 74. While the crowd was following the big names, a swarthy, burly (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ib.) player named Julius Boros, an ex-boxer who smacks a golf ball with punching-bag precision, slipped around Dallas' Northwood course almost unnoticed. Not until he posted his third-round 68, equaling the best of the tournament, did the crowd wake up to the fact that he led Hogan, by two strokes...
Cornell's Peter Debye, 68, Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist, author of the Debye theory of the specific heat of solids. Born in The Netherlands, Debye succeeded Einstein as professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich, served as director of Berlin's Max Planck Institute until the Nazis drove him out ("Stay at home and occupy yourself by writing a book," they told him), in 1940 finally made his way to Cornell. There, perpetually wreathed in cigar smoke, he pioneered in high polymer research, taught Cornellmen their chemistry, and each year managed to make them...
...African Queen. A prissy spinster (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolor version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...
...Muggy heat and the threat of rain failed to keep over 1000 seniors, their relatives and guests, from listening to two line gags, pleas for money, and exhortations in the Sever Quadrangle yesterday afternoon during Class Day exercises...
...class officials set up a nurse's office and first aid station in Wiggles-worth B-11 yesterday for any casualties from the heat or rush of reunion activities. The room will be open to alumni and students and their relatives all week...